Flock & ALPR Cameras in Avondale, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Avondale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Avondale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Avondale itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (20).
15 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (12), The Home Depot (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Avondale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Avondale
The readers mapped around Avondale break down as 9 of unrecorded make, 4 Genetec, 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2021; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Addison Street — 4 readers
- West Wrightwood Avenue — 3 readers
- North Kimball Avenue — 3 readers
- West Belmont Avenue — 2 readers
- West Diversey Avenue — 2 readers
- West Irving Park Road — 1 reader
- Belmont Avenue Bikeway — 1 reader
- West Fullerton Avenue — 1 reader
- North Avondale Avenue — 1 reader
- North Milwaukee Avenue — 1 reader
- North Pulaski Road — 1 reader
Avondale in the Cook County picture
Cook County has 1,915 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #823 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 5,185,812 residents and 9,668 road miles. By road density that is 0.20 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic, 3 street, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (12), The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Avondale, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Avondale. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Avondale
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Avondale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Avondale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Avondale
What you can do in Avondale
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Avondale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).